Brandon Jennings calls out Kyle Lowry for getting All-Star help

Brandon Jennings is recovering from surgery on his torn Achilles’ tendon and decided to call out Kyle Lowry for getting help with his NBA All-Star Game starting spot.

Brandon Jennings of the Detroit Pistons is out for the season with a torn Achilles’ tendon and wouldn’t have been able to play in the NBA All-Star Game had he been selected.

And, ultimately, Jennings was not among the reserves chosen Thursday for the Eastern Conference. But he aimed his ire at one of the players voted in as a starter for the game—Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry.

Jennings was referencing Canadian pop star Justin Bieber rallying his followers to vote for Lowry. However, Bieber’s efforts were in vain, anyway. According to the Toronto Star, the votes his followers tried to cast on Twitter didn’t count because Bieber forgot to use the correct hashtag.

Toronto has been killin it and @Klow7 deserves to be an nba all star. Make sure to vote for him. #WeTheNorth. Good luck buddy.
— Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) January 19, 2015

So those nearly 53,000 retweets didn’t matter because Bieber’s original message didn’t include #NBABallot, the required hashtag to turn a tweet into a really, really lazy All-Star ballot.

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Jennings was averaging 15.4 points, 6.6 assists, 2.5 rebounds and 1.1 steals in 28.6 minutes per game when he was hurt, while shooting .401/.360/.839.

However, in the 15 games prior to being injured, Jennings had been on a tear—averaging 20 points and 7.2 assists in 28.5 minutes a game and shooting .440/.404/.828.

The Pistons were 12-3 in those games, which coincided with the departure of forward Josh Smith, who was waived the day after Christmas.

But Lowry is having an all-star year, exceeding or matching career-highs in scoring (19.4 points per game), assists (7.4 per game), rebounding (4.9 per game) and steals (1.6 per game), all which playing 34.8 minutes a game—down from last season’s 36.2 average. He is shooting .428/.337/.809.

Lowry turned a breakout season in 2013-14 into a large pile of cash—getting a four-year, $48 million deal in July, with the fourth year a player option.

Lowry was the 24th overall pick out of Villanova in the 2006 NBA Draft by the Memphis Grizzlies, but he also played for the Houston Rockets before he was acquired in a July 2012 trade by the Raptors for a player who is no longer in the league (Gary Forbes) and a draft pick Houston flipped to the Oklahoma City Thunder as part of the James Harden trade in 2013.

DeMar DeRozan was an All-Star last season for the Raptors—their first selection since Chris Bosh in 2010 and just the fourth different player chosen in Toronto franchise history.

Lowry became the fifth—with or without the help of his celebrity friends.

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